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Thomas Gray

Male : Poet. Spent most his life in Cambridge colleges. Travelled with Horace Walpole on the Continent 1739-41
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Cornhill, London

Date of Birth : 1716 Date of Death : 1771 Age : 65

Other Work : Professor of Modern History at Cambridge 1768

Education : Eton & Peterhouse, Cambridge
1747-1750
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
(1747 Dodsley) (1924 Oxford) - Anon

1751-1760
Designs for Mr R Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr T Gray
(1753 for R Dodsley) (1766 Dodsley)
Odes by Mr Gray
(1757 Strawberry Hill Press, Twickenham) incl The Bard & The Progress of Poetry

1761-1770
The Descent of Odin
(1761)
Designs by Mr R Bentley, for Six Poems
(1765 London)
Poems by Mr Gray
(1768 for J Dodsley, London)
Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge
(1769 J Archdeacon, Cambridge. 2nd Ed)

1771-1800
The Poems
(ed William Mason) (1775 printed by A Ward, York & London) - enlarged ed
Designs by Mr R Bentley, for Six Poems
(1775 Dodsley, London)
Poems by Mr Gray
(1775 Wm Sleater, Dublin)
Journal
(1775)
The Poems of Mr Gray
(1778 A Ward, York) - 4 vols
The Poetical Works
(1799 for J Scatcherd, London)

1801-1850
The Poems
(1801 Bulmer for du Roveray, London. New Ed)
The Poems
(1814 White, Cochrane, London)
The Works
(1816 Mawman, London) - 2 vols
The Poems
(1821 C Whittingham for John Sharpe, Chiswick) - R Westall
The Works of Thomas Gray
(1825 for Harding, Triphook & Lepard, London) - 2 vols

1851-1900
The Poetical Works
(1851 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets)
The Correspondence of Thomas Gray & William Mason
(1853 Bentley)
The Poetical Works
(1859 Bickers & Son) - Birket Foster
(nd. Sampson Low)
Poems and Letters
(1863 Chiswick Press)
Poems and Letters
(1879 Chiswick Press, London)
Works in prose & Verse
(ed Edmund Gosse) (1884) - 4 vols
Poems
(1887 Chiswick Press)
Poems
(1894 Eton College Press)
English Poems
(ed Duncan C Tovey) (1898 Cambridge)

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard
(1751 Dodsley) - Anon
(1753 Dodsley. 8th Ed)
(1763 Dodsley. New Edition)
(1834 Van Voorst)
(1846 Longman) - 1st Owen Jones Edition
(1847 for the Etching Club by Joseph Cundall) - The Etching Club
(1854 Joseph Cundall) - Birket Foster, E V Boyle, G Thomas
(1866 Day, London) - illuminated by Lady Willoughby
(1883 Lippincott, Phila) - 500
(1914 A & C Black) - G F Nicholls
(1931 Medici Society, London) - Frank Adams
(1938 Ltd Eds Club NY) - 1500 signed by Agnes Miller Parker
Offered in 1998 for £220
(1946 Golden Cockerel Press) - 750. Gwenda Morgan
(1949 Birmingham School of Printing) - P D Shepherd
(1955 Rodale Press Miniature Books, London) - John O'Connor

20thC
Poems
(1902 Eton College Press)
The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West & Ashton 1734-1771 : Edited by Paget
Toynbee
(1915 Clarendon Press) - 2 vols
Poetical Works
(ed A L Poole) (1917 Oxford)
An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
(1924 OUP)
Poems
(1928 PP for Eton College by Riccardi Press)
The Correspondence of Thomas Gray
(1935-71 Clarendon Press)
- 3 vols. edited by Paget Toynbee & Leonard Whibley
Poems
(ed Leonard Whibley) (1939 Oxford)
Occasional Memorandums : Extracts from a Journal for the Year 1767
(1950 Mill House Press) - 107
Correspondence
(ed Paget Toynbee & L Whibley) (1953 Oxford) - 3 vols
The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray
(1966 Clarendon Press)
Complete English Poems
(1973) - Edited by James Reeves

READING
Edmund Gosse : Gray
(1882)
Duncan C Tovey : Gray and His Friends - Letters and Relics
(1890 Cambridge)
Albert S Cook : A Concordance of the English Poems
(1908 Boston)
Clark S Northrup : A Bibliography of Gray
(1917 Yale UP, New Haven)
H W Starr : thomas Gray as a Literary critic
(1941)
H W Starr : Supplement to A Bibliography of Gray
(1953)
R W Ketton-Cremer : Thomas Gray - a Biography
(1955 CUP)
Morris Golden : Thomas Gray
(1964)
A Johnston : Thomas Gray and the Bard
(1966)
Robert L Mack : Thomas Gray - A Life
(2000 Yale UP £25 & $39.95)

Related Writers

Joseph Cundall
Golden Cockerel Press
James Reeves


See also

William Blake
Everyman Series 501-1000